#1Bay St. Louis’ famous people span 102 years: 8 births from 1898 to 2000
The best known is the african American sculptor Richmond Barthé, with articles in 10 languages. Behind the leader come Tolu Smith and Albert J. Raboteau. Richmond Barthé, the best known, was born in 1901. Only 60 of the 269 towns in Mississippi with anyone on record list more.
What stands out about Bay St. Louis’ famous people
When Bay St. Louis’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1900s, at 2.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Born in Bay St. Louis
Richmond Barthé has articles in 10 languages, Tolu Smith in 9 and Albert J. Raboteau in 5.
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#2What Bay St. Louis is known for
Share of Bay St. Louis’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone else born in Bay St. Louis
Here are 5 more, born from 1898 to 1972.
No one matches both filters.
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Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with a name on record is Waveland.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Bay St. Louis and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (3)
- Richmond Barthé: Simon Speed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tolu Smith: Pikraken, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Putnam: Gabriel Moulin (1872-1945), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
